chreq -- Command

Change priority, lifetime, or printer for a job
chreq [-dprinter] [-llifetime] [-ppriority] job

The command chreq lets you change  the printer, lifetime, and priority of a
job,  which  identifies  a  print  job  spooled with  the  command  lp.  It
recognizes the following options:

-dprinter
        Move job to the queue for printer.

-llifetime
        Change the lifetime of job, where lifetime is one of T (temporary),
        S (short-term), or L (long-term).  Temporary  lifetime means that a
        job ``survives'' in the  spool directory for two  hours after being
        spooled; short-term means that it survives  48 hours; and long-term
        that it survives for 72 hours.  After a job's lifetime has expired,
        the print daemon lpsched removes it.

-ppriority
        Change the despooling priority of job  to priority, which is one of
        0 (highest  priority)  to  9  (lowest  priority).  Jobs  with  high
        priority are printed  before those with low  priority.  The default
        priority is 2.

See Also

commands,
lp,
MLP_PRIORITY,
printer

Notes

You  can  reset  the  default  priority  for  print  jobs  by  setting  the
environmental variable MLP_PRIORITY.

chreq is available only under COHERENT release 4.2 and subsequent releases.

© 2012 by Stephen A. Ness